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The Eyes of Darkness
Автор: Koontz Dean R. Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2009 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20112010-06-23
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A mother's greatest wish-or worst nightmare-comes true when she finds hints that her dead son may still be alive.
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Purity of Blood
Автор: Arturo Perez-Reverte Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. Soon Alatriste discovers that he has become part of a religious and political conspiracy that leads all the way to the highest levels of the Inquisition.
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Making it Up
Автор: Lively Penelope Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 26 мая 20112011-02-29
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Story-telling is an ingrained habit; I wouldn't know what else to do. But the mythology that is intriguing today is that of imagined alternatives. Somehow, choice and contingency have landed you where you are, as the person that you are, and the whole process seems so precarious that you look back at those climatic moments when things might have gone differently, when life might have spun off in some other direction, and wonder at this apparently arbitrary outcome In this fascinating new piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks what if she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18? If she had married someone else? If she taken a different job? If she had lived her life abroad? In this highly original work, Penelope Lively examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path...
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Midnight
Автор: Dean R. Koontz Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092012-03-29
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The citizens of Moonlight Cove are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified — if not brutally murdered in the dead of night. Enter the shocking world of Moonlight Cove, where four unlikely survivors confront the darkest realms of human nature...
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Zero History
Автор: Gibson William Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 526 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20152013-06-25
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Hollis Henry is broke.Milgrim is owned.Garreth can't be bought. And they all have something that global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend needs/wants, as he finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift, after a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy they can out-Bigend Bigend himself.
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Heidi
Автор: Spyri Johanna Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 238 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20112009-12-16
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This is the classic story of Heidi, an unwanted child who finds love and happiness against all the odds.
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Once a Jailbird
Автор: Fallada Hans Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152017-08-31
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For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco — and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making... Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.
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Fantastic Mr Dahl
Автор: Rosen Michael Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092006-06-25
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Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? This title provides answers to these questions. It includes stories and anecdotes from Roald Dahl's school days and family life.
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Jane Austen Bind Up
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2008 Страниц: 1278 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20102009-12-13
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Jane Austen chronicles the subtleties and nuances of- and the aspirations and machinations at work in — her own social milieu. Through the stories of her spirited heroines and their circles, their interactions and rituals, their movements from ballrooms to drawing rooms, from London and Bath to parklands and gardens, she recreates the life of The English gentry that she observed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of her novels is a love story and a story about marriage — marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, wise and penetrating, they are brilliant portrayals of the society Jane Austen knew.
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Автор: Baglio Matt Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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This is the declassified CIA story that inspired the new film from Ben Affleck and George Clooney. Tehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American embassy and held sixty Americans captive for a gruelling 444 days. But until now the CIA has never revealed the twist to the Iran Hostage Crisis: six Americans escaped. The escape plot was run by Antonio Mendez, head of the CIA's extraction team and a master of disguise. Mendez came up with an idea so daring and potentially foolish that it seemed destined for Hollywood... and indeed it was. He invented a fake sci-fi film called Argo (from the actual name of the CIA mission, a reference to Jason and the Argonauts). After announcing the production to the movie industry, Mendez put together a team of real 1970s Hollywood actors, directors and producers — along with covert CIA officers. They would travel to revolutionary Iran under a foreign film visa, and while 'scouting locations' throughout the country they would track down the six Americans who were hiding out. After giving them false identities as part of the film crew, they would spirit them back across the border. One part Ocean's 11 and another part Black Hawk Down, Mendez's mind-bogglingly complicated and risky gamble paid off: each escapee was extracted without a shot being fired. Mendez is considered one of the greatest officers in CIA history. The story of this, his greatest mission, has never been told.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Автор: Ferguson Niall Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132014-10-27
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, and loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history. From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fuelled Britain's war effort to the Wall Street Crash and today's meltdown, this is the story of boom and bust as it's never been told before. Whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's no better time to understand the ascent of money.
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Further Under the Duvet
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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Slide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before ...Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones. And of course, agony aunt, Mammy Walsh is on hand to solve all your problems.Hilarious and poignant, down-to-earth and moving, Marian's long-awaited second volume of journalism and previously unpublished writing is the modern woman's perfect companion. So put the kettle on and grab that Kit Kat Chunky — everything else will wait.
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Me Before You
Автор: Moyes Jojo Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132014-07-11
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Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
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The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World
Автор: Yergin Daniel Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-26
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In The Quest, master storyteller, leading energy expert and Pulitzer prize-winner for The Prize, Daniel Yergin shows us how energy is the ultimate engine of global political and economic change, in a gripping story that spans the old energies on which our civilization has been built, the new energies that are competing to replace them, and the battle over climate change. Epic in scope and never more timely, The Quest vividly reveals the decisions, technologies, and individuals that are shaping our future.
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Under the Duvet
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, movie-making, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium. Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These are her collected pieces: regular bulletins from the woman writing under the covers. Marian loves shoes and her LTFs (Long-Term Friends), hates realtors and lost luggage, and she once had a Christmas office party that involved roasting two sheep on a spit, Moroccan-style. She's just like you and me... Featuring a wide compilation of Marian's journalism from magazines and newspapers, plus some exclusive, previously unpublished material, Under the Duvet is bursting with funny stories: observations on life, in-laws, weight loss, parties and driving lessons that will keep you utterly gripped — either wincing with recognition or roaring with laughter.
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White City Blue
Автор: Lott Tim Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2000 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20092001-06-21
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Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf — White City, Shepherd's Bush — as 'Frank theFib'. He's a liar — but one who always tries to tell the truth. He has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser, Colin, a computer nerd, and Nodge, a cabbie, since schooldays. Now they are thirty, and trying to live the same life as they did then — drinking, girls, coke, and football. But Frankie is bored. He's decided to carry out the great 'betrayal' — he's going to get married. From the moment he tells his mates, the whole patchwork of their friendships begins to collapse — revealing the sad, shocking but often hilarious truths that lie underneath.
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The Last Runaway
Автор: Chevalier Tracy Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2013 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20152014-06-15
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«The «New York Times» — bestselling author of «Girl with a Pearl Earring» makes her first fictional foray into the American past in «The Last Runaway», bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions, and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement.»
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Team of Rivals
Автор: Goodwin Doris Kearns Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 944 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20172014-07-24
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In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. A book to bury yourself in.
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Last Chance Saloon
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-12-30
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Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. And now all three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you...
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Under the Duvet
Автор: Keyes Marian Жанр: Penguin Group Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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Offers the author's observations on: life, in-laws, weight loss and parties; her love of shoes and her LTFs (Long-Term Friends); the horrors of estate agents and lost luggage; and, how she once had an office Christmas party that involved roasting two sheep on a spit, Moroccan style.
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